YouTube removed 7.8 million videos and 224 million comments in Q3 2018

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Google owned YouTube published the YouTube Community Guidelines Enforcement report for the third quarter of 2018 yesterday.

The report highlights that YouTube removed 7.8 million videos, 224 million comments, and 1.6 million channels in the quarter alone based on policy violations.

The majority of videos and comments that were removed by YouTube were removed automatically. YouTube's automatic routines removed 6.3 million videos and 223 million comments from the site; the remaining 1.5 million videos and 1 million comments were reported to YouTube in one way or another.

Government agencies and NGO requests led to the removal of 34,000 videos; 547,000 were removed after YouTube users reported them, and 878,000 were flagged by members of YouTube's Trusted Flagger program.

74.5% of all videos flagged by YouTube's automated system were not viewed by any user on the site, and "well over" 90% of videos uploaded in September 2018 that were removed for Violent Extremism or Child Safety had fewer than 10 views according to YouTube.

Full reading: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/14/youtub...n-q3-2018/